Anti-Aliasing

Saturday, November 20, 2004

I am viewing my site on another computer that doesn’t have ClearType or a similar anti-aliasing technology enabled and I notice that much of the text looks jagged and nasty. For posterity you should enable ClearType (or better yet FreeType if you happen to be running X).

Steps (Windows XP):

  1. Right-click on your desktop and go to Properties
  2. Go to the Appearance tab
  3. Click on the Effects… button
  4. Check the “Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts…” checkbox
  5. Select ClearType from the dropdown
  6. Press OK
  7. Press OK again
tagged: general, software
written by Brad Fults

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2 responses

  1. captain November 20th, 2004 at 12:28 pm

    isnt that for LCDs? it makes text look all blurry on a CRT

  2. Brad November 22nd, 2004 at 12:05 am

    Looks fine on all of my CRTs.

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